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because everyone always wants more documentation...
October 2004 - Posts
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Jesse Ezell posted a couple links with info about the next Flash player. With most companies, I would take their predictions with a grain of salt but Macromedia has consistantly delivered on their Flash Player promises. Read More...
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because all the cool kids are doing it... Which File Extension are You? Read More...
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After too many months of downtime, my personal site is alive again, in the 4th incarnation it has known in as many years. Although it is not nearly as cool as the last version (a full-on flash version, also available as html, both with ASP.NET/SQL Server Read More...
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The built-in Windows search functionality sucks. If you disagree, you're wrong. Every company that has any chance of becoming a player in the desktop search market is trying to get into the game. The big boys (AOL, MSN, ETC) are working on it, but most Read More...
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I do more searches at IMDB than anywhere other than Google . ActiveWords is perfect for things like this, I added the script below to ActiveWords and now get a prompt where I enter the search term that is then sent to IMDB. <"http://imdb.com/find?tt=on;nm=on;mx=30;q=<INPUTBOX: Read More...
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I LOVE LookOut but it suffers from 1 fatal flaw: it lives in Outlook. I have seriously had to open Outlook in order to search for files on my harddrive before because LookOut does better searches than the Windows Search function most of the time. Hopefully I'll be able to drop LookOut now, I am never fully comfortable using Outlook add-ins Read More...
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Richard Tallent is as annoyed with this as I am. A much worse thing is that when I originally installed the updates today, I got a dialog telling me that both of the 2 updates had failed to install. No reasons were given, just the sad fact of failure. There was no option to do anything except click "okay", so I did. Then the updates began the installation process. WTF?!?!
This is the 2nd horrible security handling issue out of the last 3 Microsoft has faced (I give MS a passing grade on Read More...
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This is a perfect example of why I refuse to use NSI and recommend that everyone should do the same if they can. Read More...
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Matt announced Unleash It 2.2 on his blog today. I tried WebDeploy before Matt renamed it and had a few problems with the FTP functionality. I was happy to see the FTP library has been replaced in Unleash It 2.2 (formerly WebDeploy). I tested a few of the betas over the last week and have been very pleased with it so far. Matt has now posted the Gold version, so if you're working with ASP.NET (or anything that needs deployment, actually) go check out the feature list, this is a very helpful Read More...
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Laszlo went Open Source on the same day that Macromedia announced a free non-profit license for Flex . Probably just a coincidence. ;) Read More...
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Jayson pointed this out to me so I installed it and am extremely impressed. The GUI (although very slick) looks a little overwhelming at first but almost everything works the way you would expect it to, almost intuitively. “Intuitive” is a relative term, of course, but when I look for a feature, Omea has it and it is right where I expected it so that's good enough for me. It isn't perfect but is closer than any other RSS reader I've tried. If you are still looking for a desktop RSS aggregato Read More...
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The hills are alive with the sound of music KB links echoed through blogosphere. As reported here here here here here here here here here here (and too many other places to mention), MS has released a bulletin regarding this vulnerability. If you want to correct the problem, you should add the code from KB article 887459 to your Global.asax (or Global.asax.cs or Global.asax.vb, as the case may be). I still recommend using more fine-grained security checks on each page like I mentioned earlier Read More...
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The cult of ActiveWords is spreading and has now reached the New York Times . [via Mike McBride ] Read More...
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Eric at ivox.tv has sent me a few playlists. Since he's too slack to set up a Rhapsody page on his site, I'll post them here: The Ivox Rhapsody Playlist Page . Today I posted the first 3: Eric's favorite Post-1990 Country, Almost the Garden State Soundtrack, Read More...
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The Macromedia Flex pricing has been so high that most non-Macromedia employees saw it was a barrier to entry that would keep Flex from ever being considered by too large a portion of the developer community. They have now announced a remedy for that. Read More...
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This is so bad that I can't say what I think about it without breaking my unwritten rules of conduct for this site. I wrote an open letter to Steve Ballmer a few months ago, I guess he thought my advice was bad and that he should do the opposite. What Read More...
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If you have Rhapsody you'll want to check out the Rhapsody Radish . This site has TONS of great playlists. "The Best Of" for the last few decades as well that "Greatest Hits" from those years (and they're not always the same thing, you know). Songs for Read More...
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There is a very big hole in IIS 5 and/or ASP.NET direcorty security when using forms authentication to protect directories via the web.config file. The vulnerability was first reported on NTBugtraq with some further developments reported here on SourceForge (and here). Normally, I would be a little more upset about some publicly reporting bugs, especially those that affect me, instead of reporting them privately to Microsoft first, but in this case, Microsoft not only knows about the problem, Read More...
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Rick Brewster has announced that Paint.NET v1.1 is now available . Read More...
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